Category Archives: Canada
Prairie farmers expected to benefit from global warming by growing corn, soy
BANFF, Alta. - Farmers on the Canadian Prairies are “literally” the only agricultural winners on the planet as a result of global warming, according to an economist studying...
Sep 30, 2016
Defence minister slams cadet letter referring to breasts as 'developing bits'
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A letter outlining the dress code for young people interested in joining a Newfoundland air cadets squadron is offensive and “completely unacceptable,R...
Sep 30, 2016
Suspect arrested after missing Japanese ESL student found dead in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The mysterious disappearance of a Japanese woman studying English in Vancouver is now a police investigation into her death. Police announced Friday that the body of 30-year-old Natsu...
Sep 30, 2016
Shackles removed from hospitalized woman facing deportation: minister
HALIFAX - An ailing woman who is facing deportation to England has been freed from shackles that kept her restrained in her hospital bed following the intervention of two Nova Scotia cabinet ministers...
Sep 30, 2016
Two people on a plane reported missing near Yellowknife found alive: military
YELLOWKNIFE - Two people who were on board a small plane that was reported missing in the Northwest Territories have been found alive. Dave Lavallee, a Royal Canadian Air Force spokesman, said th...
Sep 30, 2016
Costco to add seven stores in Canada in 2017; no decision on membership fee hike
MONTREAL - Costco says it will open seven locations in Canada next year after opening its first business centre this fall. The Washington State-based big-box retailer currently operates 91 s...
Sep 30, 2016
$9,700 Rona Ambrose claimed was for condo before Stornoway, Tories say
OTTAWA - Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose is denying a media report that says she claimed additional accommodation expenses while she was also living at Stornoway, the taxpayer-funded off...
Sep 30, 2016
A look at leading Rogers publications Flare, Maclean's and Chatelaine
TORONTO - Canada’s venerable fashion magazine Flare and the news weekly Maclean’s are the latest casualties of dwindling print revenues. Rogers Media says it’s ending print...
Sep 30, 2016
Brock U names new interim president after woman slated for job doesn't take post
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Ontario’s Brock University has named a new interim president a month after announcing that a woman who was to become the school’s first female president would not be...
Sep 30, 2016
University of New Brunswick adjourns appeal in women's hockey case
FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is pausing the court battle against a ruling that ordered it to reinstate its women’s varsity hockey team. The ruling, by the La...
Sep 30, 2016